The Reading Recovery Training Center at Clemson University in North Carolina Virtual Professional Development Library was recommended by Pat Johnson. It has excellent Reading Recovery-based resources on teaching writing strategies to primary students. Extensive modules contain short videos and documents.
This is a great site for teachers and staffs who want to engage in continuous learning about teaching writing. |
National Novel Writing Month happens every November. NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program is an authentic creative writing task that happens throughout November. It is designed to encourage students to set writing goals, build writing fluency, and collaborate with other writers. Teachers may have students sign up online or use teacher resources provided.
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Comics for Beginners is a website by Palle Schmidt, a comic creator. He offers three helpful how-to-write comics episodes for free.
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This Teaching Channel 13 minute video on UK: Guided Writing Workshop looks at the power of field trips to generate background knowledge for meaningful and successful writing. Above all, it spotlights the instructional practice of guided writing. Teachers mentor students in small groups or side-by-side to generate effective sentence starters and memorable descriptive phrases. Applicable to all grades.
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This link takes you to Writing Prompts: "My 28 most tried and true writing prompts" page, but you can access far more prompts. This grade 9 teacher shares engaging prompts with visual appeal to get students writing--again and again. All you need is access to the internet and a projector. Many of the prompts work well with younger students.
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RAFTS: An approach to writing
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ReadWriteThink, affiliated with the International Reading Association, provides educators and parents with quality practices and free materials in K-12 reading and language arts instruction.
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Teacher Toolkit is provided by Learning Unlimited; it includes provide tools, professional resources, infographics, and downloads of many organizers. Tools are clearly organized under literacy topics including writing workshop.
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Teacherswithapps website has a great resource on 197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About that you can print off for reference or use to access links to YouTube channels.
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